OUR BABIES

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10852, 29 April 1911, Page 5 (Supplement)

OUR BABIES

[By Kygeia.]

D'RIEID MILK FOR BABIES.

KEIPfLiY BY "HY6EIA."

(Continued.)

In paragraph (2) of our correspondent's letter he sa,ys tlia.t his firm maktes Dried Milk cm a large soale, tihait l»Ja has been in "personal communication with Di's. Hutidrinsmi and Still in 1 LondloH," and that :he thinks he "kriowß aotraething aibouti milk." fifere and in the rest of tine letter is conveyed the ctonfidieinti assertion not only of an extensive knowledge -with r'egi.ird to milk in glenemvl, but also the aotivicition of the writer that more weight andl authority ahould Ixs attached, to his idelaison this sulbjcot than to what has been mid regarding tbb uso ml infant feeding 1 of dried and ahhorwise oondetnsed milks in Oir BalUies oolWDMi—•from whidi lie differs especially regarding 1 the cilaim.fi) of the particular Dried Milk -whicili hiei linn manufactures—viz., Glaioi.

The citation of tlia names of Dm Hivucihiison and (Slbill, of London (apparently again rtfe-ned to in paragraph (7) as "the higtieist authorities tliaiti we consulted, and) nlndier whom we p.ro aciting?') is clearly intended to convey the impression that! tiles® well'knoftvn pihysilciiansi artei with the makers of 'G-laio, and at variance with whati has appeared in this clolumn. In reality, as- I shall show presently, the reverse is the easel

But, even if two 1 eminent' doctor's did range themsfclves against the faclta ri.nd law's of Nartiuire and the findings of slcienc-, ilia truth would be in no way affociteid thereby. Id i& always a misitaikio toi clo"d a simple issue by the introducftiomi of .misleading or irrelevant nuaititiea* tendingl to Oonfuise rather than throw 1. light on points imdeir 1 donsidlerartioM. As Proiessoir Stanley Jevons says- in his bbofc cln Logid (when cfealing 1 with the subjefcifc of Fallacious A rgtMncnts)— "Whoever useia what is known as

arglumientum ad hominemi (jthat is an argiiment which resits not upon the mlerit'si of the oaslei, !biutb the oliaraioter or position of thoise emgagied in it) commits this fallacy." "

HowcivW, as I havQ ventured to hint, Drs Htiltteilusion and Skill &re not in axwird witli the) proprietoi's of Glaxm. In his well-flsnoiwu tecct-ltooik, "FckhTl and the. Pi'incopies of I>iete£ic«," pagja 450, Df. Hutohison gilvta a taible sifLOTving; the chemical composition of the "Humanised Milk" supplied by the Aylesbury Dairy 00-., of Liondon, as compared ■with Nature's own standai"dr~-viß.. tho milk of the human ntorther. I add three columns showing respectively— (1) tno clompofli-tion of . "Iranianised milk," pi'tepared in aeidordanoo with the rdci]D«s given by the Sbtioty for tlie ILaaith of Women and Cliiicltreffi; (2) tha do.m,position of Glaxo n« given on piag© 30 of the "Glaxoi Buby Book" ; and (3) cow's milk. —Taibla Slewing Average Composition of Various Milks!.—•

The peroentagjo of proteid in hun nj-an milk giveai in tha above taible is somciwhat higher tliaii tlie figures arrived at "by very extensive analyses of minithcr's milk made during 1 the la.sA 10-ymrfc. Thus tlie a.ven-'ag© is given by Pirofm*>r 'Rtuulnitz, of Fragoie, as .ciomimoinly va.iying: from 1.1 to 1.5 pel" cant., or, say, an aven-ag© of 1.3 peir dent —in other w'onls, from a third to a h&vlf of the proportion found in Glaxo 1.

(To be continued.)

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